Summary
“Mr. Berry’s sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow.” - Nick Offerman
“Overwhelmingly, though, the poems in This Day reveal the life of a person who cares about his relationship to the earth and the human community … His poems, whether they soothe or jolt, inspire or move to responsible action, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619024366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1619024365 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 554g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 154mm x 231mm |
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Critics Review
“Overwhelmingly, though, the poems in This Day reveal the life of a person who cares about his relationship to the earth and the human community … His poems, whether they soothe or jolt, inspire or move to responsible action, aim at keeping ‘kindness’ and ‘kinship’ alive in the world. That alone makes This Day a book well worth reading, on a Sabbath or any other day of the week.” —Marginalia Review of Books
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
(August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026)
Wendell Berry was an essayist, novelist, and poet. Throughout his life, he received numerous accolades, including:
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- John Hay Award of the Orion Society
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
In 2010, he was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. In 2016, he received the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
Berry lived with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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